The New York Herald Newspaper, August 27, 1850, Page 2

ewe) mean Our Harrisburg Correspondence. Harrissora, August 20, 1850. The Case of Moses ¥. Beach— New Cotton Mill— The German Vote—A New Political Scheme, §c. The recent application to the Executive of this State, by one of Moses Y. Beach’s sons and his attendant counsel, does not appear to meet with any favor. affidavits stating the indictment, as found by the Grand Jury of Lehigh county, had been obtained by Wall street speculators with a view of extorting money from Moses Y. Beach, has been fully in- Westigated. The result, so far from having the slightest foundation, stamps the whole proceedings ‘as a base attempt to throw odium on a responsible and high-minded public officer, in order to quash the criminal proceedings pending against Mr. Beach. Admitting the Lehigh Couaty Bank Money now worthless, should be redeemed by any ayrangement on the part of those interested ia its fraudulent issue, such a Course does not destroy the intent of the purnes to defraud the public, as no Joubt ex sts that the institation was merely a tender to the financial sehemes of the former pub- licher of the New York Sun, and that most of its issues were Confined to the snaving shop adjoining that publication office, and loaned to needy me- chenics to pay off their workmen. 1 learn from high authority that the | | | Tronkel, Lamberton, and Carson. .On Saturday morning, his Honor, the Judge Pearson, delivered following opinion :— These cases were before the Court on writs of habeas corpus, the defendants having been com- mitted on warrantsissued by a Justice of the Peace. Jt seems that oaths were made charging them with having stolen certain iropetiy. On these oaths warrants were issued, the defendants ar- rested, brought before the magistrate, and, without a heering, committed to prison. It might be im- plied, and is admitted, that the offence, if any, was committed in the State of Virginia. raised to the regu- Several objections have been larity of rrants of commitment: 17 not stated where the offence was committed. 2. That the ownership of the property stolen is not sufficiently averred. The defendants have also given evidence te show the irregularity of the proceedings, and on what circumstances the charge was founded. The oatn was made, and a note of the facts stated on the docket of the justice, but not sigaed by the depo- nent. We are of opinion that the whele proceeding is very loose and irregular. The warrant of com- mitment should state whose property was stolen, and where the oflence was committed, Had that vrocecding been regular, we should not have Keoked beyond it, except when called on to fix the amount of bail, und possibly to see whether any gross mistake had been committed by the magis- The machinery of our new cotton factory is | traie. being erranged under the superintendence of Mr. The defendants have called the party making Simeon Briggs, ot Sulem, Massachusetts, a gentle- | the charge, and also the man whose property was man every Way qualitied by extensive observation | alleged to have been stolen, to show the citcum- and experience. will give employment to two hundred and seventy- five hands, two hundred of whom will be fernales. The factory ix one of the first class, and will have eight thousend one hundred and ninety-two mag Spipdies, aud three hundred looms, driven by a digh pressure vertical beam engine, of one hun- divd and sixty horse power. The whole, when finished, will refleet great credit on the perse- ance of a few gentlemen who induced its erec- and on the builders, Me Holman and mous, as Well as on the masons, Messrs. Me- ‘This new element of industry | itv ona Bell, whose work on this building will | compare favorably with any in the couatry. The work on the gas works, which had been suspended, has been resumed. The contractors | pow promise us the much desired light im sixty days ‘This will be a valuable auxiliary to give | life and business during the session of the Legusia- | ture, provided the Town Council will open their hearts, end wht up the main streets and thorough- | fares, Which is suggested with ail due deference to | the wi-dom aud iutelligeuce in that dignitied body. _ A movementis ub eumoryo, With extensive rami- fications among our adopted citizens of German extrection, the fountein-head bemg in your city, for the orgewzetion of a distinct political element, at the neat Presidential election. One of the lead- ers in thie derign, declares the intention of this body to be nothing lees than a representation in the | Sepate of the United States of oae-third, or, as ne | Temarked, of twenty-two members, with their balance vetr reseional districts, wherever either party would nominate « candidate forthe * Paderiand.” This scheme is not an idle one, nor is it in the hands of Men destitute of ability—on the contrary, it has many supporters Whose talents and political saga- city ure looked up to asa guide by their couatry- | men. The intrigue for this vote, by some of the cliques at Washwgton, will scon be knowa, aud will heve a tendency to revive the Native Ameri- to be thrown into the scale in Con- | | can olganization with ten-fold toree. It is to be | heped that the good sense of the majority of our adopied ciizens will keep them aloof from any | ous cel orgunization, Which would weaken their lewlty to the consti nand laws they have swora | to defend, end which guaranteés and confers on ali classes of our citizens, both native and adopted, the seme rights and privileges, and recognizes no such distineuon es this moverment would inevitably produce The prospects of the whigs in the next campaign appears to be slight. They have lost the prestige of the neme of General Taylor, around which a nD eref independent democrats rallied in suffi- cient force to earry the State on the independent ticket. Since the Vresidential eampaiga, the whigs have failen back con a their old party organizatio: ution as Whigs, in Philade called thei stances under which it was stolen ; and from the evidence, it seems that three horses were taken in the State of Virginia, probably. by the three. pri- soners Who were proved to be absconding slaves— two of them belonging to Mr. Taylor. They, it is stated, took with them two of their master’s horses, with saddles and bridles, rode them about thirty miles, and turned them loose. "The slaves were pursued, and the horses found where they had probably been abandoned. In the case of William, called John Strange, there is no evidence that the horse was stolen, although itwas alleged that William pode off a horse belonging to Mr. Littlejohn. We have no proof of Mr. Little- john’s horse having been stolen at all. From aught ‘that there appears, he might have been leat. e must therefore dismiss William, without further in- vestigation, as there is no ground whatever for committing him, Several questions have been raised by the defeadant’s counsel. First: That the proceeding could only be sus- tained under the act of Congress—therefere, the warrant was illegeliy issued on aa oath made in Pennsylvania. e have no doubt that warrant was improperly issued, as the oath should have stated that the crime was committed in Virginia, and the defendants had fled from justice. But we do not egree to the position assumed, that the oath must be made under the act of Congress. When so made, and properly certified, or when the indict- ment is found in smother State, and properly authen- ticated, we consider it conclusive, and we have no right to inquire beyond it. But when fugitives are pursued into Pennsylvania, we consider it strictly feat to make an oath before an officer of the law here—have a warrant issued—the party arrested and committed, in order to await @ requisition of the Governor of the State from which he fled. It is not so much a matter of comity asa police regulation of our own, to get clear of dangerous delinquents. We do not sustain the proceedings for the benefit of the!Siate Whose laws are violated, alone, but for our own safety. We are well aware that the legislation of Congress is exclusive in many eases ; and if the rights of V ja alone were coa- i, she could not urge us to do more than carry into efiect the Congressional provision. Bat every State has a nght to protect its own citizens from the felons of other States; and if we choose to permit our magistrates to exercive such jurisdic- tion en an oath made under our own laws, the fugitive charged with felony cannot lawfully com- plain. ® ; The Supreme Court of Massachusetts, in 5— page 586—deeided that their act of ;Assembly, au- thorizing a similar proceeding, did not conflet with the federal stitution id the custom at eom- mon law of Pennsy on the same subject, is equally valid ; deprived of such power, a large por- tion of the most dangerous criminals would escape phia, and ne ated a full State ticket, kick- | punishment. ing out, Without any compunctions of con- ‘The only question left open is as to the guilt or sevence, the indepepdent leaders who could not | innocence of Samuel Wilson and George Brooks. The | management, will be dis- iz defeat on the State ratic majority in both SusQuewanna. consistently tuke part in their convention. result, by this suici ployed in an over ticket, and a large der branc # of the Legislature. ¢ Siave Riot at Harrisburg—Arrest efthe Mea and Slaves—General Ex- cltement in the € Haruisnune Pa., Aug. 24, 1850. A party of ten ortwelve men from Clarke county, Virginia, arrived here se days ago, in pursuit o three fug tive slaves, who, they alleged, were also having stolen three horses . They found and arrested : in Harrisburg, whom they cloimed as property, and alsocharged before Jus- tier Beader, with having stolen three horses in fugitives from justi to aid in the three colored pers« res Vuginia Toe Justice committed them, without any hear- ing, to the Dauphin county prison, and their mas- ters hired carriages for the purpose of conveying them away, thinking that they could withdraw the charge of larceny, prove their property, and take it away. Bot when they went to the Justice for this purpose, he told them it could not be done. This capduct on their part, induced some persons to think that the charge of lareeny had been made for the purpose of getting possession of the alleged slaves, end that it was ail a mere pretext, without apy foundation. With tios view of the subject, the prisoners were brought before the Court of Quarter Seesions. son, Cowden, and Heister, on a writ orpus, and aftera fall examination, were remanded to prison, to await the decision of the court. This morning, the court (Judge Pearson) gave @nother opinion, end ordered the prisoners to be discharged, on (he ground that no larceny had been provid to have been committed, but indicated that the persons claiming them as property, could take them afterwards, in case it was done without any breech of the ,eace, and carry them away, but that such a course Would constitute kidnapping if they ‘Werenot slaves. Whereupon the prisoners were e) ect- ed from the pneon, and immediately taken into cus tody by their claimants, in the vestibule of the prison, wher and when’ an afiray took place be- tween the alle vd slaves and their master or mas- | An attempt been made to prove that these mea were in this county at the time the alleged larceny was committed, for the purpose of showing a gross misteke in the charge, and raising doubts as to the identity. We Tsave no doubt, whatever, that these men are slaves belonging to Mr. Taylor, and fled at the time and in the roanner stated by him. We have, also, no doubt that they took the horses, saddles and bridles; for, although there is no direct proo of the feet, yet the men and the property disap- peared from the same place at the same time, and the horses ere found in the direction the men would pass to reach this place, where they were arrested; but the only pointof any doubt is as to the intention with which they were taken. en one man clandestinely carries off the property of another in the night time, the fair presumption is thet he intended to steel it; bat that presumption may be repelled by circumstances. The party charged may show that he took the article for a temporary plrpose—not with the intention to steal but merely to use, intending to return it, or leave it where the owner might get it again. 3 The defence mainly depends on their being slaves endeavoring to escape from their masters, and using their horses fer that purpose, and not animus furandi. If there was any reasonable doubt as to the intention, it would be our duty to send the cases to a jury of the State of Virgu but we have no and if the mea were on their trial in this court, we should be obliged to instruct the jury to aequit them, ‘The rule of law is settled in numerous cases, and at various periods of our je | history, that, if property is taken, even clendestinely, yet not with the iatemtion to steal, but merely to use, it is not larceny. If probable cause to beheve these men guilty was made out, as committing magistrates we should retain them for trial ; bat io not think that any crime has been proven against them, and that the taking was amere trespass No proof has been adduced as to what laws exist in Virginia on the subject of the abduction of pro- perty & slaves; but we take it forgranted that, ia the absence of evidence, oy re governed by the rules of common law. If the rule is more stringent in this State, it should be showa by the accusers Another point has been raised: That the Court will not permit those mento be arrested, as they have been fraudulently seized, imprisoned, and brought into Court on a criminal charge, for which there was no foundation whatever. ‘ We are by no means prepared to say that this charge was {randulently preferred ; but, oathe con- The Execution of the Hi n Generals. The piowting: painful scene of the execution of the Hungarian Gene after the treasoa of Geor- gy, iadrawe by M. Schlesinger, in his War in upgary :— One 6th of October, 1849, thirteen generals and staff officers were executed. Four of these heroic men met their endat day-break, the com- | mutation of their sentence to powder und lead ex- empting them from the anguish of witnessing the death of their companions in arms. Amongst the rest was Emest Kiss. His brother had become in- pune after Georgey’s treachery; his cousin had fall- en, a second Leoni in the defence of the Ro- thenthurm pass ; he, himself, the richest landed proprietor in thg Banat, whose hospitable castle was all the yedr round filled with Austrian cava- liers and officers, was, on the 6th of October, sen- tenced to death by the Austrian court-martial, on which sat many of the former partakers of his hos- pitality. His friends at Vienna had interceded to save his life, but in vain. He died a painful death; the Austrian soldiers who were ordered to carry the sentence into effect, and who for a whole year had faced the fire of the Hungarian artillery, trem- bled before their defenceless victim; three sepa- rate volleys were fired before Kiss fell—his death struggles lasted full ten minutes. The report of the firiog was heard in the castle, where those of- ficers sehlenced to be hung were preparing for death. Poltenberg had been in a profound sleep, and startled, as he told the Austrian officer, by the first volley, he had jumped out of bed. ‘The un- happy man had been dreaming that he was in face of the enemy, aad heard the firing of alarm signals at his outposts—it was the summons from ha grate At6 o’cleck in the morning the condemned offi- cers were led to the place of execution. Old Au- lich died first : he was most advanced in years,and the court martial seemed thus to respect the na- tural privilege of age. Distinguished by his zeal and efiorts in the cause of his country, more thaa by the success which attended them, Aulich was inferior to many of bis comrades in point of talent; but in uprightwess and strength of character none surpassed him. Count Leiniogen was the thirdin sue- cesrion,and the youngest. Au opportunity had been oflered him late on the preceding evening,eseaping by flight; but he would not separate his fate from that of his brother-in-law, who was 4 prisoner in the foitress. His youth, perhaps, inspired him with a desire of giving to his elder companions in sorrow around him an example of heroic stoicism in death: and, on reaching the place ef execution, he exclaimed, with melancholy humor, “They ought at least to have treated us to a breakfast!” Oue of the guard of soldiers me peeping ee 4 ed bim his wine flask. “Thank you, my friend,” said the young general, ‘1 want no wine to give me courage—bring me a glass of water.” He then wrote on his knee, with a pencil, the following farewell words to his brother-in-law:—*The shots which this morning laid my poor comrades Jow, still resound in my ears, aud before me hangs the body of Aulich on the gallows. In this solemn moment, when J nwust prepare to appear before my Creator, Lonce more protest agaust the charges of cruelty at the taking of Buda which an infamous slanderer has raised against me. On the contrary, L have on all occasions protected the Austrian pri- soners. [commend to you my poor Liska and my two children. Idie for a cause which always ap- peared to me just and holy. If in happier days my friends ever desire to avenge my death, let therm retiect, that humenity is the best political wisdom. As for’ * * Here the hangman interrupted him: ii was time to die. Torok, Lahner, Poltenberg, Negy Sandor, Knezich, died one after the other. Vecsey was the lust; perhaps they wished, by this nine-fold aggravetion of his torments, to make him tuller for the destruction caused by his cannon at Temesvar. Damianich preceded him. The usual dark color of his la atures was heizhtened by rage end impatie: llis view had never extend- ed further than the glittering point of his heavy sabre; this was the star which he had followed throughout life; but now he saw whither it had conducted him, and impatiently he exclaimed, when limping up to the gallows, “Why is it that I, who have always been foremost to face the enemy’s fire, must here be the lust?” The deliberate slovr- nees of the work of butchery seemed to disconcert him mere than the approach of death, which he had defied in a hundred battles. This terrible scene lasted from six until nine o'clock. Scotch Views Mepul {From the Glasgow Mail, Aug. 7} The new President ot the United States, instead of being a young lawyer, as we were first told, turas out to be a person fifty years of age on the 7th of last January, who has been a member of f the State of New York with those occasional exceptions iable, since 1829. Mr. Millard Fillmore is a farmer's son, in the State of New York. The elder Fillmore, at present, cultivates his own farm, and it is a small si county. He is now in his ¢ightieth n incidental circumstance, eneral salubrity of farming in New E en in this old country, few farmers wae hands” their posseasio: at that age. Agrica has done lite for Na- thaniel Fillmore in » ork State; for during his fourscore years’ experience, he never was moderately rich. As the science is prose- din the United States, we doubt if it ever en- ‘ its followers. Twelve to twenty bushels of wheat by the acre are deemed a fair return, and one not calculated to “over scorch” the land, while it certainly will not enrich the land’s owner. Millard Fillmore has done better ia his varied walk n Nathaniel Filmore, although the latter ad- hered literally to the good old American decla- ration— THe that by the plough would thri: Himself must either hold or driv; Science has stept before proverbial philosophy, and intimated to those who want to thrive by the plough the supererogetory character of the man employed to drive, The American papers say significantly that at fifteen Millard Fillmore knew little of books. At that age he was moved farther back in the coun- try, and Samese to learn the trade of clothier, Four years followed, in which, sccording to the existing biographies, he did not improve his kaow- ledge of books. He was then nineteen, when he returned to his native village, and on the shelves of a recently established village library, to civilization. Collections of books in village libraries, in this country, at that period, are described by those who remember them, as pot remarkably select. Mrs. Radelifi’s dark tales of creeping terrora, and the standard old novels,which were very coarse, form- ed the light reeding. Generally, a set ‘of the old Spectator redeemed the library from utter deatitu- tion, end the name from the carping, misanthropic character which ic tained in latier times. His- tory de novts had M’Queen’s narative, and Anso: voyages or Bruce's travels furnished good reading in their class. The villige libraries were not ill sup- plied because the world wanted good books, for they were p'entiful, but from the art of — 7 being generally practiced- certitie York State: cultivate with * the! selection of Presidents from the South, where the planters maintain a social aristocracy, although members of the republic. Mr. Fillmore’s history shows that @ persevering man may attain the high- est position in the States, as a similar raan might attain a bigh position here ; but otherwise it indi- cates on unsefe state of society. A barrister in London might get into Parliament by family influ- ence, but he could not rise to a high office in the state ualess his professional talents were sufficient to secure for him a competent income. Mr. Fil moree vidently possesses the requisite talents, but they are net ¢: ble for a high rem in the ordenai ened ue fe gBlbepic 3 ain een ane a ee wld caching, a ary han as father at erght mhers of 69s 190 occupied in beng wo rent defect exists somewhere in the Union, when this state of matters is produced. Men of wealth apparently do not take much interest in politics and men of talent, even after they have poet celebrity, do not become rich. The removal of all obstructions to progress, from the dyer’s vat to the seats of the Legislature, or in bli, as in this case, to the Presidential chair, is not objectiona- ble ; but the want of steps upwards, bri addi- tional remuneration as t! x thee py additional rank and responsibility, is calculated to produce eer {ebbing by officials, of which the United States ave had recently some most deplorable instances, and from which they will never be entirely exempt, while clever and experienced men, without any means of their own earning, or from any other source, are elevated to the highest places in the State, for a few years, with the certainty of revert- ing to obscurity, and, probably, to comparative penury, when their term of office has expired. The evil has produced fewer bad consequences in the United States than it might have done in any other country, and time may correct it there ; for undoubtedly the Americans value intelligence as highly as eny other people ; only Mr. Millard Fillmore has been engaged in intellectual labors amongst them for nearly thirty years—and we doubt if his earnings for any single year equalled the payment to a prima donna for one week at the Bowery, or some of the other New York theatres ; yet they deem him competent for the chief magis- ‘racy of the republic, and entrust him with the dministration of more than one-third of their nited influence and power. z English Pauperisimn 1849, (From the Manchester Times, August 7.) The Second Annual Report of the Poor-law Board, (tormerly the Poor-law Commission) although dated the 3ist December, 1849, has not been more than a fortnight in priat, and yet, so important is its subject matter, we feel as if we had already too long delayed to notice it. We do not now intend to meddle with any of the “ vexed questions” which readily ruggest themselves in connection with a document of this kind—such as the causes and cure of paaperism, and the best mode of managing or pupleying paupers. On the sn occasion, we shall limit ourselves to laying fore our readers those facts and figures which must be the basis of all just speculation on such questions. During the year ended Lady Day, 1849, the sum actually expended for the relief of the poor in Eng- Jand and Wales, was £5,792,963 ; during the year ended Lady Day, 1848, the sum similar ly applied was £6,180,765, showing a decrease of expendi- ture in the more recent year of £387,802, or £6 6s. per cent. And if the increase of population in the more recent year is duly taken into account, and the rate per head on the whole population of pauper expenditure is struck, it will be found that in I every man, woman, and child in England and Wales, aid 7s. 1jd. for the relief of the poor, while in 1849, he, she, and it, paid only Gs. 6jd. each for that purpose, showing a decrease of 7jd. per bead. Or if, instead of looking at the money expended, we look at the number of paupers releved, we find still a decrease. In 602 unions, with a population estimated to be bear upon sixteen millions, on the Ist of January, 1849, 987,996 persons were reeeiving relief, while in the same unions on the Ist of January, 1850, the number relieved had decreased 63,324, a decrease which, taking into account the increase of popula- tion, amounts to 6 4 per cent. And, finally, it may be worth mentioning, that, as nearly as we can calculate, out of every seventeen persons in Eng- land and Wales, on the Ist of January, 1850, one was receiving parochial relief, either in or out of the workhouse. As compared with the parochial year of 1548, that of 1849 shows a decrease of pau- = , and of money spent on them, which is, so jar, satisfactory. But our satisfaction is diminished when we remember that the parochial year of 1843 is the worst we have had since the New Poor Law Act came into operation, in 1835. If we com; 1849, not with 1548, but say with 1839, we shall see how little reeson there is for self-gratulation. 1839. was a year of preéminent distress, the average jrice of wheat being higher than for any twelve- month since 1819, viz. 69s. dd. per quarter, and yet in 1839 the rate per heed of amount expended in re- liefto the poor on the estimated population was only 158. Sid. (an a int enhanced, no doubt, by the high price of pro’ ms), While in 1849, wit! wheat ruling so low (comparatively) as 493. 1d., the rate per head was, as we have already stated, Gs. 64d.; being an increase, after ten years of the New Poor-law, of 9j per head! In 1848, there- fore, the disease of p: rism may be said to have reached its acme; in 1549, it begins ow symp- toms of abatement, but the symptu! » a8 yet, too slight to found hopes of speedy recovery on. It may be interesting to know what proportions the verying elements of English pauperism bear to each other, and the veluable tables and statements in the present report afford the means of approxi- mately determining them. We do not kaow what was the number of paupers or of each class of paupers relieved on the Ist of January, 1550, in all the unions of England and Wales; but we do know these details for 602 unions and single gy with an estimated population of 15,945,- 0, a number so large as to afford a most satisfac- tory index of the whole pavperism of the whole population. On the Ist of January, 1850, there received relief in these unions and parishes, 924,672 persons. From the tables before us we are enabled thus to analyze, with something like accu- racy, this frightful mass of destitution and wretch- ede Total number relieved in round numbers, say. .924.800 in round numbers, about p- Able bodied adults (m pumberr, about (mostly aged and in. rer HOME. ose see . Children under 10, im round numbers, about. pretends to nothing approximate accuracy), it will be ob- served that the nomber of chiidren under 16, and of aged infirm adults are the same, and that these two classes constitute the great bulk of our pau- it gives the tion the census of Hels of the county according to 201,091 Our Claims on Portugal, The correspondent ef the London Chronicle writes from Lisbon, under date of the 2%h ult. as tollows :— After de: to convey t gouation to his on board the itching the steamer of war Missi i, favalligence of the failure of the tie vernment, pendence fi mand of Commodore Mo Clay embarked gate, under the com- gan, who proceeded to Gibralter, on his way to resume the command in the Mediterranean. The departure of the Ameri- can Minister, on the 20th in: by immediate hostiliti at first, and the whole was not followed had been anticipated proceedings will be submit- ted to Congress, beiore any stringent measures are adopted to enforce the claims. trade of Portugal will insuiance, 8 LO Cne Ci evertheless, the fler from the higher rate of foresee what course the free and enlightened citizens of the model repub- lie may decide upon, and Portuguese vessels may be seized witheut any further notice. Meanwhile it will be interesting to know the exact state of the question. After the proposals of the Portuguese government to submit all pend- ing claims to arbitration had been rejected, they finally agreed to the payment ofall deman un- der protest, except that for the Genera] Armstrong, which they refused companied this refuse: submit the claim to the Sweden, or any other friendly sovereiga. must now be consider to acknowledge. They ac- 1, however, by an offer to decision of the King of his ed the only bone of conten- tion between the two countries, and J shall, ther >- fore, lay the chief stre: 88 upon it, after briefly touch- upon the other demands. 1D sone baad oarg i the Suepherd, Capt. 1828, oo for $10,089, seized on board « Hall, on the 17th February, by the ancient laws of Portugal the ship- ment of coin was absolutely prohibited, and ren- dered the culprit liable to capital punishment. The Lar set up in defence of the captain was, that he pad brought the money from Antwerp, and a sea- lence was pronounced, favor. This was ap; on a second appeal » ia the first instance, in his led from, and reversed; but e original sentence was duly confirmed, and an order issued for the immediate delivery of the specie tish to the captain. So far every was perfectly legal, and, in the case of a Brie subject, no further proceedings could have been commenced without a violation of Olver Cromwell’s treaty. It is to be presumed that the eitizen of the United the same privilege, have inte ding t! eed at once to decision, on the 22d April, 1833, Don States did not then enjoy or his government ought to ect him. Notwith- uel, the de facto sovereign, acknowledged by the United States, was graciously pleased to order In virtue of thi: sentence was reversed, on the captain had violated the laws of @ new trial. by not manifest when he doubt can be entertai been the decisions of few will admit that tirst arives in the port of Lisbon. royal order, the round that the custom house money on board his vessel ined that this ought to have the tribunals diag oor but the court which finally ad- judged the case on the 10th June, 1834, was at all competent to take cognizance guese government, hi tained the validity of of The Porta- owever, hi ways main: this proceeding, and allege the ulter impossibility of any inteference on the part of the executive with the solemn decision of a court of justice. A demand was made on September 1, 1844, for $51,684 61, to indemnify the owners of the Miles Jor the losses sustains ing circumstance: Mozambique in great distress, was tak by the Portuguese authorities, and d by them under the follow- at vessel, having put into ia charge on shore, by which she was so materially damaged that it became necessary to sell her. They likewise seized the cargo, consisting of S80 barrels of oil, and after obligin the captain to pay all the disbursements, compelled him to reship his Nay which was destined for Boston, on board the the Principe Don Ped: would not bargain with the Le ese bark 1,000, and ‘ort ro, chartered for rmit him to strike a more favorable , Which might have been taken up for a much smaller amount. cipe Don Pedro, on her voyage to Boston, sprung a leak, and put into Pernambuco, where the cargo was sold to the Portuguese Consul, notwithstand- ing the protest of the ca; net proceeds were applied to the repairs The Portuguese government allege that vessel. iles, and the ptain of the Mi the said the Don Pedro deny a vessel of war, but merely chartered in the same manner @s any other mer- the cargo was liable for gross heir readiness chant vessel, and that average. as soon as proof shi having been made ; case to the arbitration of mercantile of Lisbon, nominated by t! claim for compensation to our, originated cit: tA b of the Unite on of that vessel icion of having been pgouche, as well as and barbarous ill- nals, They express, however, to retund the amount paid for duties i be produced of such payment Mozambique, ud they propose to submit the men of the two governments. owners of the what termed by the d States, the illegal coadem- at Mozambique, on the sus engaged in the slave trade at for the unjust imprisonment atment of the crew. The case seems to have been adjudged by the pr nor is a complaint urged of x tribu- the forms of law, so that one is nota little surprised to hear of an attempt to disturb a judicial settle- nent. Great suspicioa is thrown upon the captain of the Magoum, by his ignoring that Angouche be- longed tothe Portuguese. Hiwrevse, tases tires claims, though might be fairly le bility of an equital Btates. ptible of some little doubt, arbitration, with every = arrangement for the United But the claim for the destruction of the General promtrese, by a British squadron, in the port of ‘al, is #0 contrary that the tional Ay in resiati id firmness. On the to the principles of interna- Portuguese government has ing it with all due moderation ih of September, 1814, th American privateer General Armstrong, mou’ 7 guns, with a comple by Captain Reid, obi water in part the following day tieting of the ‘al, on condition th: Tanta; ment of 90 men, coomandet ained permission to take in she was to de- . Aa English sqradron, con- net, 74, the Ro! of 53 guns, and the brig of war Carnation, unde: the command of Commodore Lloyd, appeared eff the port mpg e | afterwards. t, in an unarmed boat, in order to was sent at nig! board the privateer, Lieutenant set and examiae her papers, but a smart fire was opened upon the boat from the Gen- eral Ari been given. ‘0 of and seven wounded. As soon as this unjustifiable Commodore, ported to the , before the least provocation had the boat's crew were killed was re q he troaened several launches to be armed, and to attack the privateer. No y infraction of considerate of the susceptibility of a w he was tenacious of the glory of his ay rn anticipated any demande for satisfaction, by direct- ing an emple apology to be tendered by the minis- ter at the court of Lisbon. Foreign music and the Drama, Str Perexssurcu.—M. Louis Schubert, ger of the German opera in this city, has just died, ohet a short a Angirio Ci “a OLOGNa.— Signor io Circa, a composer w! gave great ih of future fame, has just died at @ premature age. LAN —At the theatre Carcano there has just been executed, with great success, a new compo- sition, by the Count Castelbarco, entitled Le Deluge. 2° concert, which took place Maprin.—Ata at the Conservatoire, several pieces were sung, ta- ken from Le ete Among the pet were Mesdames Lara and Angles, Messrs. Olivares and Hijosa; there were fifty choristers, and the or- chestra was composed of seventy musicians. Vienna.— Morelli has submitted to the adminis- tration a plan for the re-organization of the Italian opera. According to this project, the which at present ~ Be ei ‘April, will, commence on the Ist of March, and continue for three months, as before. There are to be fifty-five to sixty performances of opera, and twelve to of the ballet. In the course of the season eight operas, ut least, are tobe given, and two entirely new alVienna, Madile. ner has taken leave of the public in the part of Fides. There are in tion at our opera the revival of Mehul’s “Jo« seph,” aud the opera of “Othello.” A new balletis also ip preparation, entitled Le Diable Amoureux. Leipsic —The new opera, in four acta, entitled Gen vive, by Robert Schumann, was performed for the firs ime on the 23th ult., butit has not realized public expectation. Itis said to be mere concert music, without any dramatic power or effect. Peu.in —spohr arrived here on the lth ult. comrg fron Breslau. The Association of Artiste: Mu: us have decided ou erecting a monument tothe memory of the deceased chapel-master, M. Nicolai ‘The hundyecth anniversary of Sebastian Bech wil! be celebrated here by a grand festival, given by the Singing Academy. On the 18th ult. the ceremony took place of laying the first stone of the national monument to be erected in the park of the Hotel of tle Invalides to the memory of the oldiers killed in our late political troubles. In the evening Mendelseohn’s oratorio, lijah,” was ex cuted in the garrison church. The following eve- ning there was a grand musical solemaity at the opera, Which commenced by a grand march (fest- march) and the Barw: f Spontini. The second act of the Camp of Silesia was next given, Madame Keoster sustaining the part of Vielka. On the oc- casion of the restoration of the King’s health the reunion de chant, Hennig, gave, at the church of St. Stephen, « red concert, col d of the works of Schulz, Mendelssohn, and ig. The Gazette Muswule, of this city, has sub- scnption in favor of the widow of Conradin Kreut- zer, the author of the “Night in Granada,” who died jately in the greatest misery. In the course of the ensuing month (September) we expect to hear Medile. Ebeling, a pupil Madame Viardot, a young and handsome person, gifted with a very charming voice. KRiga.— Amongst the new works performed here has beea the Huguenots. This opera, which is played under the name of Raoul et Valentine, has ae yah great success, aud is frequently per- jormed. Panis Curr Cuat.—A new comic opera, in three ects, the words by the inexhaustible M. Scribe, and the musi . Adolpbe Adam, has been brought out at the Opare, Comique; it is entitled Guulda; ou, La Nouvelle Psyche. This new work is paguant in the libretto, full of comic humor and spirit, and is likely to rival in success the most popular of M. Seribe’s amusing opera: music is good, without bein; bef impressi Madile. Felix Mislan performed the herome in a very pleas- ing style,jand M. Andran is a ising tenor singer; this piece is altogether well brought out, and likely to have a run, in spite of the heat of the weather, Which makes our theatres deserted for the ai fresco emusements of Les Jardins, the Cha- teau Ges Fleurs, the Café Concerts, and similar places. The Legislative Assembly has voted, within the last few days, the subvention to the navonel theatres, and the Conservatoire, for the Kory, oie itis the same in amount as at pre- sent. Roger has left to proceed to Hamburgh, where he 3 engaged to sing for a few nights in Le Prephete; on bis return to Paris, the rehearsals of the L’ Enfant Prodigue will be continued. Madame Alboni is giving some magnificent soirées in the neg at my last date she was at Nantes. prez recently gave a concert at Ami and another at Sr. ens , with his may his young daughter, Madle. Caroline Du whose cherming voice is greatly admired. Madite, Nau, who is at present delighting the audiences at the Surrey Theatre, is expe to return te Paris at the close of the present menth. ‘The cl of the Grand Opera is stated to have been ly necessity, in order to make important alterations aud repairs, for the better security of the theatre and the actors. Anew safety staircase, in the event of ire, and for ordinary use, is to be erected bebina the s' and many al in th aes the rehearsals are com ued, an several works will be ready for the re. i The regular payment of the crtists’ salaries ie obf gatory to those having salaries up to 6,000 franes, notwithstanding the house being closed. This is the fourth year this establishment has been closed, from various circumstances. From the 16th of April, 1849, to June, 1850, there have been sixty- three periormances at the opera, of the Prophete, and the receipts have amounted to 586,617 frances. Madame Laborde has renewed her e1 t at the opera for three years. Garcia an ee toe Boulogne-surMer, where he intends giving con- certs. Jenny Linp.—This distinguished vocalist quitted ‘kholm on the 29h of Thee; ‘embarked on board the steamer Gauthoid, for Lubeck. Short! before her departure, Jenny Lind sent to the preal- cent of the Temperance Society ot Stockholm the sum of 1,000 rix doliars banco (about £200) to be ene 3 Eady os od amonget those who have ‘st observed the pledgaof a! tinence from spiritu- ous liquors Min ae Musicale. ” ,USSELS.—M. Balathier has the ma- Degement of ourjtheatre, Foor Bary ag by the municipal authont ad’ Andorre will be speedily Danraia.—Le Val brought out here, with an entirely new company. We hear that Fidelio is in rehearsal, and will be the next novelty of the season, at the Royal Italian Opere, Englesd, which, it is said, will terminate = aa ~ of this oe oe i e select company from jaymarket and jgcome are performing in @ little cireuit round ham. ‘The: - igh at eer ahs ia Birrniagham; the of Old Honesty,” in which Mr. Rogers Mr. We’ ww, (the brieklayer,) Mr. Tilbury, who was most bster's of Michael f the three were beaten in such a A most vigorous defence was made by the crew, not ae libraries not t they ci , tw defendants, Wilson aad Brooks, rd Fillmore read hard, and he began to periem. The number of able-bodied adults i} th 1, but also fro: warmly received, sustained the original ch bs that they could offer no further | ‘ry, two of the defend > ilar n 5 gan Pe d only from the vessel, al ma strong posi ginal character do ‘ | | can only escape atrial, and probable conviction, of Judge Wood, a f . | (whieh we have put down at 170,500), is stated in | 4; tl nd tl th be | Of Septimus Hook. In the comedy of “ hird one in the melée having suc- | from the tact thet € 7 ere ghaves, enaoavert + | tract the notice udge Wood, a lawyer of con the report to be 170,502; end of these the “ ae al ; ~ ~ A : rn — oe h . ly Lr siderable rice, and a mon of talent and wealth, who savieed the future President to abandon the counter for the bar, and furnished him with the means of prosecuting legal studies in his own office. Mr. Fillmore’s early experience had not been so Their heads were we? s brutally bruised, the They were thea hundeutled authority informs us no less than 53,151 widows receiving out-door relief! And further, taking the total relieved as above, 924,500—we will not, calculating from the data in the report, go to eseape from the custody ef their master, ani merely used the horses to aid them in their object. We should not permit Mr. Taylor, or any other man, to seize his property in open court, which of nearly two hundred men in kilied and weanded. The Carnation was then directed to range H of the privateer, and soon succeeded in silencing her, but the crew ese: on shore, after = ‘ed. principal members of the company, grea Riveriiee here. They play on next {Fo oad tod, . Wednesday, at Worcester, during the races; will be at folverhampton the vase week, slaves and would be ® contempt; but he has an undoubted 1 the counter as a‘ the vat and the loom. He | fr wrong, if we thus separate them into the (Wo | fire'to the vessel, which was completely dest: after again visiting their circle of towns, conclude a besedh of te prion, right to take = Rt) ge; is | w tuceac 8 cloth worker Gan wcleihiee, He had eda conomical divisions — 115,000 | atte Portuguese Governor remouatrated wih the | theif summer tip by playing for & fortnight at ntly bi . hands on them, . ws that art like a London apprentice in olden | In- .* sees mmodore, bot florts una’ er quently brewght outonhateds turbance ensue, those persons are criminally re~ = a ~y! oe wea ae Out-door. +++ ++ 609,200 | 16 induce him to respect the seutrality of the pore times. He was engaged in dying and the breadth of his mechanical practice, so consistent with our ideas of ivision of labor, helped to whet a natural desire for books and knowledge. The secret of his success at the bar and im the office—for,the leg The Adelphi com enter upon possession of the Haymarket for nh weekw formance. yo will be “ The Wil Copse, i,bound over to appear et the next term of (Quarter Sessions in Dolphia county, to answer on a charge of riot, in the sum of five hundred dollars each, with one sufficient surety in Pennsylvania, to the enme amgunt. They sponsible who cauee it. We have power to prevent the abuse of legal process, bat we have no legal authority to prevent the recapture of these men, or any other slaves, of as the British were most unjustly exasperated a’ the conduct of the enemy in committing this fla- t outrage. Othe Treth of all these circumstances is proved Total. . The report lays some stress on the reduc- tion in the number of vagrants relieved from 18,714 on the Ist ot July, 1848, to 5,662 on the Ist July, and “The Double-Bedded at the Surrey ave the require nd were disc & the owner, when or wheresoever he may. thin! profession admits, we by the concurrent testimony of the Porto; O- § ~ ; js dressed, Sey ait teers proper to exercise his right, except in the face of believe, in the United States a junctioa of both de- 1549, a decrease of 8,062, or 68-7 percent; yet as varmet, the British Commodore, and s Ss the nee ing on their back: the floor of a cell, where | the court. departmente—was indomitable industry more | the expense and amount of vagrancy bear a ve Fauseet, and is hardly disputed bythe Americans to playing it during they will probably stey till next court. The It in, therefore, ordered that the sad Samuel | than brilliant t He worked hard, made | small indeed to the total expense themselves; nor is it likely that their assertions to Giove of the court appear to have given great ilson, George Brooks, and William (alias Joha) | Himself thoroughly conversant. with his ‘cases, | amount of pauperiem, there is not much to be said Selb tabee Wal Guat clear tom faction to our citizees generally; and even some of , Strange, be discharged from confinement. wes remarkably punctual, and had the art of | vpon that matter. On this subject, however, it | any impartial person. to have had may be worth while to quote one practical remark tled in Ba . B. Farmall at no just cause of complaint existed may be the cayt pol the wi inferred from the fact that the transaction was bu- y adnut the correctaces and never saying too much; but he appea procee ing, #0 far as the court Extensive Fravns my Laxn Seacvtatons.—A | comparatively little influence, and se y nd the law ie concerned. Judge remarked, t ud, Thai s lo, then a new town, where legal services, like other 4 in complete oblivion for upwards of 23 years, on fequiting bail to answer for an offence Seer an public Feder hy A anmehe Fat throug profeseional eng ments, were probably ted that a claim was first it forward by Mr. under che laws of Pennsylvania, that the | egents in Philadelphia and New York, has just | remunerated; « doesnot appear that Mr. Fil avanagh on the 17th of February, 1837. This was holder or owner could be permitted to use as | been made known te the authorities of thie city. | more ever was enriched by the products of his office. resisted by the Por Ministers, and riuguese & corres pondence has been carried on at various periods be- the tw ernments without any ~~ the Secretary of the ‘mai d by he persone rant proves to be singularly checking mendicancy; for while under the direction of the medical officer, the bath pre- sents no annoyance, but is rather the reverse to the ‘really destitute wayfarer;’ it is ive of the tially made vp for the profvesion of begging, and f cial v7 an Seaenety treublenesne to those who Sars about them the means of supplying their own necessities. do not produce ited States, and as he eptered the State ture in early life, accepting the limited pay- en to members, his professional duties had productive, although he was the leadi lawyer of Buffalo. His election as a member o! the State Legislature may have indueed him to change his scene of to Albany, the capital of New York State. At bsequent date he was chosen to represent the State in Congress; but and violence a* Wes necessary to take ‘and corry awey the slave which he owned, but | thet he could not he allowed te go any further, | and vent out vengeance vpon him here, though it might be allowed byfthe laws of Virginia, when they fe there A large crowd of colored peop! 1 gathered about the jail at the time the slaves were let ont; and after the beating of the slaves had commence: some noise and vie Tr eppeers that certain residents of Naw who are better known at home than abroad, and who could not deceive any body in their own vicinity, purchase lands in that section of country, | a false value upon them. The manner in which they succeed in aceonrplishing this, is as follow: If the owner of the land is unwilling to sign a re- ceipt for a thonsands, when only hundreds have-been paid, the purchase is first: made | of the speculators, and then resold and redeeded to Neier olin ominues ur Jul terminates Uy engagement at the Surrey Zoologie Gardens on the 45th inst. Tue Hirrororame nlence, with throwing ef stones, tion and education are ot &ec., took place, and severe! of the mos | one of the others. A plan of the ground is then | these political honors were not producuve of for- | Emigral educat the other chief ¥ ld'to bail tor th ct hed and reaped his | pointe on which the repert touches, and its ap- ise Catherine Hayes will avs bees bald nas toe CEN made ont, with streets running throw hit, to give tune. Hie father | } ‘Ploug > annie t pendix details information. On the of these proceed on & provincial tour at the close of the opera senso he of em loyed force, be- ne M The“ hter of the Stars,” announced at the s oremion I ith the autho- it the appearance of leg by @ settle | country. In this wey, the g@rossest frauds have been practised spon our mercantile community, and our mechanics. [t is said that some of the ite, the report observes:—“ While to nada has tpreatly diminished desing tan Yous that to the Australian co of The following is Judge Pearson's opinion: — DISCHARG HE GLA VES. . Lancexy.— Commonwealth vs. Samuel Wi eny that President Fillmore h family.” His eon follows hi Strand, 1 Geo. ks, and Billey.—Theee three defend: negror the ir masters, in Clarke county, Va., near Batile- town, or Berryville, and on the same night the owners of the negroes missed also three horses, eaddl bridles. Wm.T GH. Bieler, a resident of Derryville, arrived here gome day ago, and made information before Henry Beader, Beq., charging the above named defenda with larceny, and as being fagitives from justice. Upon this, @ warrant was ineued, and the men were atrested and lodged in jail. On Friday, defendants were Hrought into 4 nded by Mresia. Rawn and Jucge McKinney ‘be owners. Wm. Taylor, Geo H. Bieler. Qnderwent « long examination, aod it was concla- Bively proven, Cas the Court Men were slaves from the Ste of Virginia, and the hore len were, no doubt, used for the par- poge of their escape trom bondage The whole of Friday was occupied by this ex- @mination, and the argument by conse: on both sacs. ‘Lhe prosecution was cenducted by Messrs. ourt, mitred) that these | , eaeaped daring the month of Jaly from | | eande of doliare aylor, the ownerof two of the slaves, and | | | fraud, ere entled their. “ hanting le, i public men of Nauvoo sre concerced in this Whole- eale system ef wrong, wud that one of the specula- tors, Who is known to be bankropt, and who has ot a dollar's worth of property that can be touched, is certified by a magistrare to be worth many thou- ‘he lnod, for the most part, sold by theee men, is worthless, or the next thiag to it, but the purchaser is none the wiser uatit he ie section of country where redress is out of the ques. tion. The operations of these men are represented to have been very sucer#ful of late. Goods or money ie taken by them in exehai for land. Philadelphia and New Yerk, the chief theatres in which they pertorm thie drama of deception — y of the ulators take lea . , they eny they are going je pe hunting rounds. Some of the public men in Washington, rom that section of the country, are charged with being concerned for or with these speculators, and it is very probable. From the evidence he hands of certain of ovr autoorities, it is clear that great misehiet hae veea alveady Philadel- eheve, and his daughter was o; poe "Bu fia nore she had jeaching the youi ashington. his incident illustrates, say the American jour- nalts, the simplicity of our republican manners. The sromepent eel —S propriety <1 ty” ie jo iss Fillmore cou! pon ago 4 than in teaching the better occupied randy of Buflalo. No other avoestion young honorable then that of teacher; barit ker iggher's talemta ahd him for the pre: ptial Magietrecy over twen' tmilltons of people, his position in ie should mre ven other duties than those of asa ‘. . ineomes, unless they trade in politics and manofacturere very rarely interfere in political afleire, because ies and legislation form parte of a separate not eefficrently active to allure them, and ay TE ry . lonies and to Cape Good Hope has m increased. The aid which the government aflords to e ‘ion to the latter colonies has been the main cause of this increase as by such aid, the cost of the parishes has brought below that of An- Cine cra nesraile i, that t thepee oring the Co Austra! ing whole year, while that to the North American colon is limited to some months of the year only. rhe public expenee'duting the your 184, 16147, the public expense du js 1,477, the rotal of £1 . As edugation, We conclude with o list of seven counties which stend ovt in jipent re nied the eae nes oe of tiem. The money colamn represents sum Capended in the relief of the poor daring the ear of 1849; the which preeedes pal fore rities, and demanded the punishment of the o, sor. Butthe it Portuguese Ambassador, the Duke of u Pelmelia, at the rudentl red. egal Riaviity any lial fo idemnify the claimants for the destruction of to indemnify the c! the privateer. Tt is evident that no for an act responsibility can attach to committed by a equadron of overwhelming force that the tes ad of Fayal had not ajar Ly pensslanent of his own rset “heat the Rida Government would hatever was the just but were it pe arenilants, have infringe: eu preeribed limits of t ‘elarum et venerabile d the newrrality of Port the enemy, in the heat of cation, witht ja the them. on the American tation ; h were faith to sereen ite ally A voluntary declara- more gracious a of jus st credit on our of Pitt im ed to by pur- he coast. That great man, Brooks. tisi takes her benefit at her a which ‘ose Kit Sims Reeves jt is ‘© concerts at ‘tamorphoses, be celebrated artiste will toa =,